MY TEACHING LEARNING Perception VS TEACHING FOR THE TEST
Teaching Learning:
- Invite students to be active
- Teacher and students involve in process
- Create curriculum environment in class
- Curriculum is in teacher’s hand
- Always remind students that in learning process condition, they will follow: lesson, guided assessment and individual assessment
- Provide worksheet and discuss it with students
- Teacher concerns
- Appreciate students’ process, that will be reflected in the marking system
- High Expectation in many areas of learning
- Follow the lesson plan and try to “respect” on what you have created and designed on teaching learning
- Use the past paper to check the readiness of students
Teaching for the Test:
- Always “test” students with test condition not in learning condition
- Follow the procedure: test – retest – remedial test
- Give worksheet too much and don’t care how can they complete it, all or some?
- Students’ fault
- Too many schedule of tests or exams
- Always feel “don’t have enough time” to teach
- Create so many extra lesson
- High Expectation on result only
- Lesson Plan only as “a homework” for teachers
- Use the past paper to test students
UJIAN NASIONAL VS ANY STANDARDIZED TESTS
Ujian Nasional
- No variation, all questions in multiple choices
- The more you have the try out, the more that you look so dedicated in teaching
- Need a person who can translate what is written in BSNP letter about UN procedure
- Sometimes the questions are so hard, need higher level thinking but students are not allowed to express the complex working
- Result oriented only because it reflects students pass or fail
Any Standardized Tests
- Most people still think that to get the good result, use “teaching for the test” method
- Level of difficulties of questions clearer. Students can show their answer by working
- Result oriented
- When stuck with a standard test, the mind set of most people still refer to the importance of test’ results. This to explain that mostly people agree that there must be a standard to test students whether they fit to sit in higher education or not. However, with the mind set that :
- A good school is the school that can supply good resources to the higher institution, or
- A good school is the school with good rank in one district, or
- A good school is about pride to be a favorite school,
Therefore, result oriented is the most important and sometimes neglect the process of learning itself
- Some popular standardized tests in Indonesia become more popular since most Indonesian respect graduated from international standard.
